Inpatient hospitalization rates stabilized in 2024 after nearly a decade of steady declines, while spinal surgeries resumed a long-term downward trend after a brief interruption
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The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday held that a motor vehicle owner can be held vicariously liable for the negligence of a driver, even if
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The California Division of Workers' Compensation proposed an informal draft of rules that would clarify eligibility requirements for qualified medical evaluators and establish parameters for
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The Delaware Superior Court upheld the denial of authorization for the victim of a violent robbery to use medical marijuana to treat her psychiatric conditions.
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An Ohio appellate court ruled that a worker’s payment of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s asserted subrogation lien on his third-party settlement did not bar
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A Washington state appeals court has cleared the way for the Department of Labor and Industries to recover nearly $150,000 in overpayments from a
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A Texas appellate court affirmed a decision denying a family's bid for workers' compensation death benefits, ruling that it could not find error in a lower
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The California Division of Workers' Compensation issued administrative penalties totaling a little more than $1 million following 36 random and four targeted audits in 2024 that
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Whether a subcontractor hired to line a pit with concrete was responsible for assessing the safety of the excavation work performed by the hiring party
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The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict awarding benefits to a railroad dispatcher for her ankle injury that was largely apportioned to her own fault,
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